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Bonnie Kent

Professor, Philosophy
School of Humanities

PH.D., Columbia University

Phone: (949) 824-6914
Fax: (949) 824-6520
Email: bkent@uci.edu

University of California
202 HOB 2
Mail Code: 4555
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
Ethics, Moral Psychology, Action Theory, Medieval Philosophy and Theology
   
Academic
Distinctions
Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Philosophy
Editorial Board, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2003-6
Fellow of the American Philosophical Society
Fellow of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St. Andrews
   
Publications SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Virtues of the Will: The Transformation of Ethics in the Late Thirteenth Century (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1995).

Articles

"Virtue Theory," in The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, ed. R. Pasnau (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 493-505.

"Aristotle's Ethics, Situationist Psychology, and a Fourteenth-Century Debate," History of Philosophy Quarterly 25 (2008): 95-114.

"Aquinas and Weakness of Will," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (2007): 70-91.

"Evil in Later Medieval Philosophy," Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (2007): 177-205.

"Happiness and the Willing Agent: The Ongoing Relevance of the Franciscan Tradition," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 (2005):59-70.

"On the Track of Lust: Luxuria, Ockham, and the Scientists," in In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. R. Newhauser (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, 2005), 349-70.

“The Moral Life,” in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, ed. A.S. McGrade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 231-53.

“Rethinking Moral Dispositions: Scotus on the Virtues,” in The Cambridge Companion to Scotus, ed. T. Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 352-76.

"Habits and Virtues," in The Ethics of Aquinas, ed. S. Pope (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002), 116-30. Reprinted in Aquinas's Summa Theologiae: Critical Essays, ed. B. Davies (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

“Augustine’s Ethics,” in The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, ed. E. Stump and N. Kretzmann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 205-33.

“Justice, Passion, and Another's Good: Aristotle Among the Theologians," in Nach der Verurteilung von 1277 / After the Condemnation of 1277, ed. A. Speer and K. Emery, Jr., Miscellanea Mediaevalia 28 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2000), 704-18.

"Moral Growth and the Unity of the Virtues," in Virtue Ethics and Moral Education, ed. D. Carr and J. Steutel (London: Routledge, 1999), 109-24.

Book Reviews
Review of T.H. Irwin, The Development of Ethics: A Historical and Critical Study,, vol. 1, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (2009): 619-20.

Review of B. Harding, Augustine and Roman Virtue, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2009.07.34.

Review of G.B. Matthews, Augustine, in Philosophical Books 47 (2006): 62-63.

Review of R. Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (2005): 245-47.

Review of R. Pasnau, Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature, in Philosophical Review 112 (2003): 105-8.
   
Professional
Societies
American Philosophical Association
American Catholic Philosophical Association
Society for Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy
American Association of University Women
   
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Last updated 08/12/2009